Georgia on Democrats’ minds: Powering up the Black vote to counter Trump's meddling

The Sunday service at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a senior pastor, is picking up steam, with the congregation punctuating their assent to the preachers and speakers on the pulpit with fervent “Yeahs!”, robust “Okays!” and the occasional “Amens!” The church on Auburn Avenue in the US National Historic Landmark District of Sweet Auburn in western Atlanta has been at the forefront of African American socio-political engagement. Its preachers voiced visions of equality during the racially segregated era in the Southern states, provided services – such as education – that were denied to the community, and preached a “social gospel” that fueled the 1960s civil rights movement. Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church played a central role in the 1960s US civil rights movement. © Leela Jacinto, FRANCE 24 The pulpit-to-politics tradition carries on to this day with the Baptist church’s senior pastor, Rev. Raphael Warnock, who was elected to the US Senate in 2020, becoming the first African American to represent Georgia, and the first Black Democrat from a Southern state, to be elected to the upper house of Congress. Watch moreUSA: Who...